Sin Quotes

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.

~ Ellen G. White

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

~ Walter Lippmann

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

~ Thomas Huxley

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

~ Tony Snow

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

~ Charles Stanley

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

~ Marvin Gaye

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?

~ Guru Nanak

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

~ Saint Basil

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

~ Herman Melville

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.

~ William Godwin

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

~ Dolly Parton

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

~ Martin Luther

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

~ Joseph Prince

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

~ Joseph J. Ellis

The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.

~ James E. Faust

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

~ Katherine Anne Porter

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

~ Bill Maher

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

~ Seamus Heaney

In art, the obvious is a sin.

~ Edward Dmytryk

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

~ Ambrose Bierce

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

~ John Ruskin

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

~ Denise Mccluggage

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

~ Charles Spurgeon

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

~ E. O. Wilson

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

~ Michelangelo Antonioni